The Fitness Now

Elliptical Machine: By now there’s no denying the need for cardiovascular exercise and many benefits that go along with it. We know this kind of exercise will burn lots of calories strengthen our heart, muscle, help us breathe easier, give us more energy and even give us a mood boost. In the last decade one of the most popular ways to achieve a good cardiovascular workout has been through the use of elliptical cross trainers. Read more…

  Inversion Table: Inversion is more of a short-term patching type of therapy. This can’t give you relief if you are in chronic pain there’s no question but, there are no studies for long-term. The purpose of inversion therapy is to open up the discs to reduce pressure off the nerve to decompress the nerve-root to reduce pain and pressure off. Another purpose of inversion table is to go upside down where the legs are Read more…

We are talking about the 7 benchmark workouts that you should know if you are using an indoor rowing machine 2 k: Number one the holy grail of rowing machine is the 2k, 2,000 meters for time if you ask anybody who has ever been on a machine for any period of time this is perhaps the most feared workout in rowing right now. This is because it falls in that sweet spot between just Read more…

Steady Style: The most basic workout is Steady State that is keeping stroke rate between about 18 strokes a minute and maybe the high end will be 24 strokes a minute and just going continuously. A workout like that can be anywhere from 10 minutes to 60 minutes or longer. You are just going at a nice comfortable easy pace that you are able to maintain, trying to hold the same spits or the same Read more…